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‘THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. . 69 
THE BAD TIMES DURING THE REBELLION—Ccontinued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
[‘?] w(t!) ; hrp—sn ['r-w  bd]tw(?) [2] h3(w)é(2)w 
in treating violently! (those who) administered? [They did] abominable things’ (to) (the) rulers 
od >, f es 
| tw hr—-sk hmw(t!) iSw; ’r-w 5g}(?) | ?rpyw—‘Fy 
the nomes,’ profaning the sanctuaries® (of) nomes; they profaned(?)” many temples. 
[th; shmw-ntr] —sn t(y)—4(?) [nw-shmw n] ntr(?) 
vio[lating] their [sacred idols?} | injuring(?)!! [their] divine [statues] 
oe 
h' wn|y|w Rereenee |) 1 ue ee mes ee Ll EY a it 
together with those that were (in) the temples and iets ptiestsnmaieast. 2 oh.  ~ suppressing(?)” 
79 
—sn(?) hr®(?) hywy(!)-sn — hsf-sn' | [n-] mt-phi(i?) [n nw-hwy|w 
of them and(?) their altars [pro]hibiting [the] duehonor[s for their altar]s 
<4 twt —sn 
todo that whichis proper (for) them® 

1 The —¢ ought to stand before the determinative, whether it was the feminine ending or a silent part of the 
determinative ‘‘locality.”” (The word wyt: “ruin,’’ can be used only of buildings falling to pieces. Neither is a 
guess like ‘‘[driving into] exile’ more probable). ‘Thus the most plausible translation is the one given above, 
assuming that the two signs after the “bad bird”’ are corrupted from the “‘strong arm.” ‘The restoration of the pre- 
ceding word, bi}w, is made rather certain by the traces of the sign ¢}; the reed-leaf in place of the determinative, of 
course, needs an emendation, probably into the ‘“‘bad man.” 
2 The irp-— scepter very poorly engraved, nevertheless sure after the demotic version. If the —sn does not 
stand at a wrong place, /rp has here a rare verbal use. 
3 The plural expressed by repeating the determinative ‘‘city”’ three times; the third time it is misunderstood 
by the engraver as two parallel lines, 7. e., final y. 
4 Sk possibly chosen after. the demotic corresponding word sg(}). It may thus confirm the view that the 
demotic version preceded the hieroglyphic. 
° The -t seems to be a mistake for the determinative “‘locality’’ or ‘‘house’’; the word hm: “holiest room, 
sanctuary, adytum,” which the demotic version demands, is masculine. See the same mt, r4b. 
° I try to separate the group (which looks almost like § and the determinative ‘‘cake’’) into m, horizontal h (the 
hu of syllabic orthography), and a poor, round r, misread from the hieratic. This is a violent makeshift, but other 
_ explanations (as taking the r for disfigured ) before );) would be much more doubtful. 
’ The verb lisf in unusual form, with the crossing f quite high (and, perhaps, a short “‘strong arm” crossing 
it below ?). - 
8 The bookroll as determinative is to be read after traces of the mummy-like statue. The sz, which then 
follows, is the possessive suffix of ‘wt and the sense is literally ‘their proper things.” 
* The usual orthography of this word is btw, but the shortening here could be explained as dropping only 
the final —w for the sake of the following plural ending -w. ‘The above restoration remains more probable than 
other guesses, e. g., than: “they killed, ill treated,” etc. The suppression of an of the dative is quite ordinary. 
The word is, so far, known only from this passage. Whether it is related to the substantive sq} of the Paris 
Chronicle (5, 22) and distinguished only by the determination can not be decided while the latter word remains 
obscure. Coptic So(0) ge, “to hurt, to violate,’’ seems to be used mostly with persons as object. 
11 This looks like the verb }f: ‘‘to do wrong, to injure,’ Demotic Book of the Dead, 29; written like 5t¢, Kufi 10, 29. 
I do not know, however, what the causative construction with ty- would mean. For this reason and on account 
of the fact that the determinative seems to be the “bad bird,’’ I consider as possible also the reading t(y)—3g, Coptic 
tako, i. e., ‘ruined, destroyed.’’ ‘The g would then be poorly engraved or corrupted to ¢, and the expression would 
refer to iconoclasm, while the reading given above would point to offending and wronging the majesty of the 
gods residing in heaven. It would, however, apply poorly to the priests. 
2 Of the verb, only the determinative “strong, violent, action of the arm” is clearly preserved, parallel 
with the determinatives of the hieroglyphic text. (Before it a group like ‘‘gods.’’) 
